Tortoise
Touch LP vinyl

With Touch, the Tortoise bandmembers — Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire — harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise's unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise's now-signature internal logic — equally alluring and confounding, a puzzle to be savoured rather than solved.

NEW / Released in 2025

Tracklist:

A1 Vexations

A2 Layered Presence

A3 Works and Days

A4 Elka

A5 Promenade À Deux

B6 Axial Seamount

B7 A Title Comes

B8 Rated OG

B9 Oganesson

B10 Night Gang